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Study Tips
There is a recipe for success, and you have just found it! If you follow these 10 tips, you will be sure to find success!
- Settle upon one location to do your studying. Be it the kitchen table, your bedroom or the rec. room, choose a place with good lighting, a firm chair and working surface, and where interruptions will be at a minimum.
Make out a study schedule for one week, allowing breaks to reward yourself. At the end of the week make an honest assessment of how well you did. Revise it - and then try to stick to it for the rest of the school year.
Review your notes at the end of the school day, and again within a few days. New information is better retained if it is recalled within a week.
- Try to do more than the bare minimum that is required. Your interest in a subject will jump dramatically if you read some of the supplementary material recommended by the teacher.
- Understand what you're supposed to do for your homework before you leave the classroom. It's no good trying to figure out at 9 o'clock that evening what the math teacher meant in class that morning.
- Prepare ahead. Both your interest and your retention rate will soar if you have read, in advance, material that your teacher will be presenting.
- Organize yourself so you complete chores before you start your homework.
- Organize your notes. The more successful students organize their notes immediately after taking them rather than waiting a few days or a week.
- Don't let yourself fall behind. It's discouraging to realize that you've missed an assignment deadline while other work is falling behind.
- Learn to use a computer. Not only could it make the difference between getting a job or not in later life, but it makes your work neater, easier to read and more professional.
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